Yes. I don’t quite remember the first time I performed on stage but I remember the last time I was performing on stage. A real, real stage, not a virtual one like my weekly Live sessions.
It was just last month, a 30-minute speech talking about my career’s journey for the past 2 decades at University Malaya in an event organized my Malaysia Research & Education Foundation.
Prior to this engagement I have just rebooted my public speaking gigs. Though I have so many years of experience in public speaking, when you don’t practice it for a while, your skills will be rusty. So I did needed a lot of practice.
I still remember I was so busy at work for the past weeks leading up to the talk, I couldn’t really find much times to work on my contents of my talk to practice. So, I squeezed in my ‘in-between’ times like when I was stuck in a traffic jam & when I was taking my shower.
The night before the talk, I was pacing up and down in my room till 2am practicing and still finalizing my contents. Then on the day itself, as expected, my nerves got the most out of me. I ended up overrunning my talk by 15 minutes, that also after being signaled many times =D
But it’s okay. Practice makes better, right? I shall continue to practice, practice, practice till I get better!
How about you? Have you ever performed on as stage or given a speech.
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